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Nigeria seals nuclear plant deal with Russia

A report on Tuesday by a local newspaper, the Independent said that the feasibility studies for the plant and a research center construction will include site screening, capacity, financing, and time frames of the projects.

The newspaper report quoted a report by Bloomberg, a foreign news agency as saying that the state-owned Russian nuclear company Rosatom disclosed the nuclear deal in an emailed statement.

It noted that Nigeria and Russia in 2009 signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of the peaceful usage of nuclear technologies.

According to the report, the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission reported in 2015, Nigeria had talks with Rosatom to build as many as four nuclear power plants costing about $20 billion.

The report added that the chief officer of the Egbin power plant in Lagos State, the nation’s biggest, said last month that Nigeria distributes an average of 4,500 megawatts of electricity, but that half the output is lost because of inadequate transmission infrastructure.

“Rosatom is seeking to build nuclear power plants in other countries on the continent, including South Africa,” the report added.

The macho men who make the nuclear killing decisions – theme for February 2018

These are the macho men who are deciding how to spend the American tax-payers’ $trillions that are not being spent on health, education, essential services, essential welfare, environment .

And this is their palace – the Pentagon, far away from the ordinary things of ordinary lives.

America is the worst – but the same scenario is being played out by the macho men in Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Britain, and of course, North Korea.

Working people pay for this – with their taxes.

And – the insanity of the system is that very many of those working people depend on the killing machine for their jobs – making a living now, in the service of the system that will kill their children.

For many macho men – the satisfaction of knowing that they can kill millions of “enemy” children, women and men is apparently worth it all. A strange satisfaction -for, even if they survive themselves – what will victory really look like?

Is it not time that women took over the decision making?

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